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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html
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Global Edition
Breaking News
FRANCE-INDIA
Shuriah Niazi
France has set an ambitious goal of…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #academic #AcademicFreedom #Education #HigherEducation #Leadership #News #transformative #university
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Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick
https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-books-come-and-take-them/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-8a88e46481-34915098&mc_cid=8a88e46481&mc_eid=d576a23207
#USPol #TxLeg #SB13 #DanPatrick #Libraries #SchoolLibraries #Books #BookBan #TexasSchools #Abilene #Texas #AcademicFreedom #KalynGensic #TexasObserver -
DATE: August 28, 2026 at 12:13PM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: West Point's Only Climate Scientist Fired Over Teaching Human Causes
Source: The Guardian - Climate Crisis
The only climate scientist teaching at West Point, the U.S. army's military academy, was fired after he resisted an order to stop teaching about the human causes of climate change, a lawsuit claims. Adam Kalkstein, a geography professor at the New York institution, was terminated after the spring semester this year, six months after a tense meeting with Brigadier General Shane Reeves, then dean of West Point's academic board, the court filing...
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #WestPointsClimateSci #ClimateChangeTeaching #HumanCauses #AcademicFreedom #MilitaryAcademy #AdamKalkstein #WestPointFired #ClimateEducation #EnvironmentNews #TheGuardian
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A former West Point professor says he was pushed out after teaching that humans contribute to climate change. Apparently even the atmosphere is expected to salute the preferred political narrative now. #AcademicFreedom
Source: Spectrum News
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“While certain countries are cutting #research and turning their back on #academicfreedom, we’re doubling down on science,” #MélanieJoly, Canada’s #industryminister, told reporters at the announcement, in Vancouver, of the new #university hiring.
#Canada #CanadaSky
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« #ThornRunPartners officially started representing and advising the #AHA leadership in February 2025, about two weeks after leaders vetoed the first membership resolution condemning scholasticide in #Gaza. »
Did the #AmericanHistoricalAssociation ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-scholarly-associations-secret-washington-playbook
https://archive.ph/85Hec
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"We turn now to new revelations from a former Justice Department attorney who’s filed a whistleblower complaint claiming that the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism pushed universities into massive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of antisemitism on campus.
Haley Van Erem, a former career attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in her complaint that the government’s probes into schools like Harvard, Brown and Columbia were, quote, “an unlawful process designed to achieve predetermined political goals.”
Brown University settled for $50 million. Columbia settled for $200 million. Harvard refused to settle, and a judge threw out a case against the university.
Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has launched a probe into the whistleblower allegations. He wrote in a statement, quote, “It has been apparent that its investigations have been structured deliberately to harass and intimidate rather than protect anyone from discrimination.”"
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/21/antisemitism_universities_trump
#USA #Antisemitism #Zionism #Israel #Universities #Trump #AcademicFreedom #Trump #Columbia #Harvard #HigherEd
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Where were all these self-proclaimed champions of #AcademicFreedom when it was being undermined by the US administration (and still is)? Thought so.
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Update. "DOJ Whistleblower Confirms 'Antisemitism' Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/21/antisemitism_universities_trump#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Antisemitism #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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I felt very lazy working on a grant proposal, so in the spirit of structured procrastination, I have processed and written up my meticulous notes on what to do, once you move your academic website to a new location. A long list of redirects! I hope that some who are also in this situation can benefit from it as a guide.
https://wasowski.dukla.ch/posts/2605-hello-hugo/#redirect-the-internet-to-your-new-location
#keep #academicchatter #academicfreedom #selfhosting #digitalsoverignty
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A DOJ whistleblower report reveals Trump
administration campus probes had
predetermined outcomes and violated free
speech. Ignoring anti-Muslim bias, it highlights an alarming reality: a direct threat to democracy and the Constitution that allows obscurantist
ideologies into universities by ignoring them.
#AcademicFreedom #CivilRights #FreeSpeech
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https://newsone.com/6869585/texas-tech-using-ai-eliminate-diverse-courses/
Notwithstanding the problems of Woke 1.0 in higher education, they shrink in comparison with the damage inflicted by the right.
#UNiversities #HigherEd #TexasTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Conservatives #BrandonCreighton #AcademicFreedom #AcademicChatter
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Update. "A leading House Democrat [Jamie Raskin, D-MD] on Tuesday called for an investigation into new whistleblower allegations that the #Trump administration forced #universities it deemed politically incorrect into settling #antisemitism cases despite flimsy or nonexistent evidence."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/universities-were-forced-to-pay-up-despite-little-evidence-of-antisemitism-trump-whistleblowers-say
(#paywalled)See Raskin's letter to the Justice Department.
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-08-18-raskin-to-dhillon-doj-re-title-vi-investigation.pdf#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Michigan 8 case is part of a broader pattern of repression
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“The U.S. side,” the statement continued, “should abandon the Cold War mentality & foster an open, fair, & non-discriminatory environment for educational, scientific, & people-to-people exchanges between China & the United States.”
#Trump #law #education #racism #AcademicFreedom #AcademicPartnerships #research #China
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…The #DOJ also is investigating whether #Harvard University is allowing #Chinese donors to create scholarships that exclude #US students 🙄, adding to the barrage of federal inquiries the #Trump admin has opened in its battle against the #university.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy said in a statement that the country opposes what it described as the politicization of “normal #scientific, #educational, & #academic exchanges.”
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The release didn’t name the schools, but a #US official … said they include #Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [ #MIT ] & #JohnsHopkins University.
…Sarah Spreitzer, VP at the American Council on #Education, which represents #college & #university presidents, raised concerns that the announcement suggests, without any evidence, that the #schools are engaged in wrongdoing.
#Trump #law #education #AcademicFreedom #AcademicPartnerships #China
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If #schools don’t complete a review & terminate any arrangements deemed “problematic” in the next 2 weeks, they face losing #funding. The purported goal is to protect taxpayer-funded #research from theft & exploitation, the #Pentagon said.
“The Department of War has zero tolerance for academic partnerships that compromise our national security,” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, said in a news release.
#Trump #law #education #AcademicFreedom #AcademicPartnerships #China
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#Trump doesn’t just love the uneducated, he hates the educated. Probably because their mere existence proves he’s a moron.
#Pentagon orders audit of 30 #universities' partnerships with foreign institutions
The #DoD has ordered 30 #US universities to audit their partnerships with mostly Chinese universities & military training institutions as the Trump admin scrutinizes #China’s growing global influence.
#law #education #AcademicFreedom #AcademicPartnerships #research
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-audit-china-harvard-mit-738832f9f20186dc5f9ef1aa39914636?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
US judge tosses Harvard case branding Gaza solidarity as anti-Jewish terror
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#Tagesschau:
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Trumps US-Regierung kassierte bereits im vergang. Jahr in einem rechtl. Streit mit der Eliteuniversität Harvard eine Niederlage. Nun scheitert sie erneut vor Gericht. Im Zentrum stand ein Antisemitismusvorwurf.
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"Regierung versucht, politischen Einfluss zu nehmen"https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/klage-harvard-abgewiesen-100.html
14.8.2026
Das ist schon mal gut!
#AcademicFreedom #Erpessung #FabricatedAccusation #Faschismus #Fascism #Harvard #KonstruierterVorwurf #USA #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit #Wissenschaftsfreiheit
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Update. "Judge Dismisses Federal #Antisemitism Case Against #Harvard."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/13/us/trump-newsThis is big for many reasons. One is that the #Trump admin has been using litigation about antisemitism to get leverage over unrelated university programs and funding. Another is that it has been aggressive and dishonest in construing criticism of #Israel, and support for #Palestinian rights, as antisemitism.
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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I’m sure it’ll be appealed, but it’s not nothing!
Judge Dismisses Federal #Antisemitism Case Against #Harvard
Judge Richard G. Stearns of the US District Court in Massachusetts granted Harvard’s motion to throw out the case, saying the antisemitic incidents cited in the administration’s March lawsuit were “too isolated and episodic” to show that Harvard is out of compliance with the law.
#law #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Trump #censorship #dictatorship #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/13/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.5FA.rsVb.K1h3ORTqfRZX&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
WTF?
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/6013680-a-new-playbook-for-controlling-universities/"An Ohio state senator [Jerry Cirino, #Republican] introduced a bill that gives state-created civics centers sweeping authority over curriculum and faculty appointments. These disputes illustrate a clear and present danger to academic freedom and institutional autonomy."
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"In 2023, 60 per cent of Australians rejected a constitutionally recognised Voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A body that could only make representations, only on matters concerning the people whose ancestors have been here sixty thousand years.
"Too much, the No campaign shrieked. Division. Privilege. Special treatment.
"Nine months later, Anthony Albanese handed Jillian Segal what the Voice never dreamed of asking for. Not a right to be heard. Power. No election. No parliamentary vote. No hearing. A three year commission reporting personally to the Prime Minister, with a mandate reaching into every campus, newsroom, classroom, gallery, charity, arts contract and visa file in the Commonwealth."Andrew Brown writes: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-the-office-australia-never-voted-for/
#academicFreedom #influence #lobbying #policing #silencing #genocideSupport #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #manipulation #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission #AusPol #JillianSegal #Segal #AnthonyAlbanese
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CW: USpol
RE: https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/117040830862582088
History of the Association of American Universities’ response to academic censorship during the Red Scare compared to its response to the White House’s “Compact.”
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https://chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com/p/ottessa-moshfegh-a-fired-professor
>>As popular entertainment becomes ever-more permissive, even extreme, transgressive art and literature have become newly problematic in the classroom. <<
#VinitaPrabhakar #SouthFloridaStateCollege #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #HigherEducation #Puritanism #Literature
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Some top law schools are banning laptops and AI tools in class to "AI-proof" future lawyers. By focusing on live discourse and critical thinking, they aim to ensure students can perform essential legal tasks independently. ⚖️ #HigherEd #University #AI #LegalEducation #AcademicFreedom
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📢Fellowships for Scholars-At-Risk.
The University of Trento is inviting expressions of interest for its 2026 Scholars-At-Risk programme.
It offers 1 senior postdoc fellowship and 2 junior fellowships for researchers whose academic work has been disrupted by conflict, persecution, displacement, or restrictions on academic freedom.
Expression of interest until 26 June 2026, the formal call will follow.
All details: https://www.unitn.it/en/news/1001
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Texas A&M faculty, students rally against policy they deem censorship – Texas Standard
Texas A&M faculty, students rally against policy they deem censorship
A professor says he’s speaking up for others “deathly afraid” of losing their jobs or being targeted by state leadership.
https://atx.audio/4qc1gz8 – Listen to audio…
By Laura Rice, January 30, 2026, 12:50 pm, Education, Race & Identity, Texas Standard Original
Courtesy AAUPThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) estimated as many as 400 people attended a rally on the Texas A&M campus on Jan. 29.
Hundreds of students, faculty and alumni rallied at Texas A&M University on Thursday, many holding signs saying “Aggies for Academic Freedom” in response to what they characterize as the university’s censorship of course material.
In the fall, Texas A&M fired a lecturer for class material that included gender identity in children’s literature. Before the spring semester began, the A&M University System implemented a policy requiring campus presidents to sign off on courses that could be seen as advocating “race and gender ideology” – or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity.
The rally consisted of students and alumni alongside members of the TAMU American Association of University Professors and other faculty, staff and student groups. They’ve formed a coalition and are laying out demands to A&M including the removal of “censorship” on teaching topics and that the university reinstate all “improperly canceled” courses. They’re also requesting the fired literature lecturer, Melissa McCoul, be reinstated.
» RELATED: Texas A&M removes administrators, orders course review following viral video
Texas Standard reached out to Texas A&M to invite them onto the program. A spokesperson let us know the university is releasing the findings of its course review today (Friday, Jan. 30). The university also provided a statement which can be found in its entirety at the bottom of this story.
Leonard Bright is president of the Texas A&M University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Listen to Texas Standard’s interview with Bright in the audio player at the top of this story or read the transcript below.
This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity:
Texas Standard: Are you concerned you’re putting your job at risk by participating rallies and doing interviews like this?
Leonard Bright: Well, you know, it shouldn’t be being placed at risk. Part of my job is to discuss matters of public concern. That is literally written in our policies and in my contract.
But of course, I cannot be silly of the fact that there are those that would love to potentially use this as an opportunity to try to get me fired or dismissed. But those are not really my concerns.
I believe that in the importance of speaking up, being truthful and try to fight for this most important thing called academic freedom, but also a deep quality education. So I think that’s more important to me.
I don’t certainly want to lose my job, but at the same time, I want to be truthful, thoughtful, and do my job with the highest level of integrity.
One of your graduate-level courses was canceled this spring. The Houston Chronicle reports the dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service repeatedly asked you for more information about the content in question that you didn’t reply.
How do you respond to those reports?
Yeah, so what actually happened is that they were asking me to be dishonest.
They asked their questions. I answered them as thoroughly as I can. I mean, they wanted to know the extent to which I’m discussing issues of race, gender, and sexuality in a graduate-level course, for students who are going into public service.
And my answer was repeatedly “every day, in every reading.” I mean, this topic of race, gender and sexuality is sort of central to the issue of ethics, which is how we treat people, and people are their identity.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Texas A&M faculty, students rally against policy they deem censorship | Texas Standard
Tags: Academic Freedom, Aggies, Audio, Censorship, Fear, Gender Identity, Leonard Bright, Losing Jobs, Race, TAMU American Association of University Professors, Texas A&M Faculty, Texas A&M Students, Texas A&M University, Texas Standard, Transcript, Video
#AcademicFreedom #Aggies #Audio #Censorship #Fear #GenderIdentity #LeonardBright #LosingJobs #Race #TAMUAmericanAssociationOfUniversityProfessors #TexasAMFaculty #TexasAMStudents #TexasAMUniversity #TexasStandard #Transcript #Video -
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20260122162502850
Yet more sullying of academic freedom at Texas A & M.
#USPolitics #HigherEducation #TexasAAndM #Uinversities #LeonardBright #Ethics #Philosophy #AcademicFreedom #Texas
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Among other commitments it also requires #Northwestern to revoke the so-called #DeeringMeadow agreement, which it signed in April 2024 in exchange for pro-#Palestinian #protesters ending their tent encampment on campus.
During negotiations, interim #university president Henry Bienen said Northwestern refused to cede control over #hiring, #admissions, or its #curriculum. “I would not have signed this agreement without provisions ensuring that is the case,” he said.
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Capitulation
#Northwestern to pay $75 million in deal with #Trump admin to restore #federal #funding
#NorthwesternUniversity has agreed to pay $75 million to the US government in a deal with the Trump admin to end a series of investigations & restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal #research funding.
#extortion #law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Palestinian #HumanRights #protests
https://apnews.com/article/trump-northwestern-agreement-antisemitism-d646516c3f800faa416228deab61532c -
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
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"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."
Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.
[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]
#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations
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I don't want the UK to be further sucked in to the US led campaign against China, but stuff like this obstructs efforts to tamp down Sinophobia.
#UKEducation #HigherEducation #SheffieldHallam #Universities #AcademicFreedom #China #Uyghurs #ForcedLabour #UKChinaRelations #LauraMurphy #HelenaKennedyCentreForInternationalJustice #HumanRights #Sinophobia
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Update. "#NewCollege of #Florida Is Ready To Be The First To Sign President Trump’s Higher Education Compact."
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/861953402/new-college-of-florida-is-ready-to-be-the-first-to-sign-president-trump-s-higher-education-compact#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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Vanderbilt Student Government and the Vanderbilt chapter of American Association of University Professors host campus Teach-In in response to Trump administration’s higher education compact – The Vanderbilt Hustler
Associate professor in social movements, indigenous rights and political anthropology Carwil Bjork-James speaks at the Teach-In against the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” as photographed on Oct. 17. 2025. (Courtesy of Ethan Thorpe)Vanderbilt Student Government and the Vanderbilt chapter of American Association of University Professors host campus Teach-In in response to Trump administration’s higher education compact
Professors and graduate students gathered at the Teach-In to speak out against the compact.
By Ella Crocco, Staffer-in-Training, Oct 24, 2025
Vanderbilt Student Government and members of Vanderbilt’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors hosted a Teach-In on Oct. 17 regarding the higher education compact Vanderbilt was sent from the Trump administration. Students and faculty at the event discussed how they believe the compact could endanger academic freedom, education policy and the university’s core values, among other topics.
Jessie Hock, associate English department chair and associate professor of English, opened the Teach-In with contextual remarks. Carwil Bjork-James, associate professor in social movements, indigenous rights and political anthropology, then spoke to the crowd about how he believes that if Vanderbilt agrees to the compact, it could have negative financial impacts for the university.
“I think that our administrators are being misled by the promise of more research funding by an administration that is clearly cutting off research funding and restricting it at every level,” Bjork-James said.
In an interview with The Hustler, Bjork-James said that the compact will not help ensure Vanderbilt is a space where students and faculty can freely express their thoughts.
“I would say faculty are really committed to maintaining this campus as a place where [students] can speak freely, where [students] can come here with any political opinion, with any perspective, get an open education and where there are viable places to do scholarship and research and this compact is not the right way to do that,” Bjork-James said.
Jada Benn Torres, associate professor in genetics, race and genetic ancestry, followed by speaking about how she believed Vanderbilt signing the compact would limit scientific research and free speech. In a message to The Hustler, Benn Torres said that the compact could contribute to the marginalization of communities and hopes Vanderbilt will continue to be a place where freedom of discussion is practiced.
“I am very concerned that the compact will upend academic freedom and freedom of expression. Additionally, there are elements of the compact that further marginalize communities that are already marginalized,” Torres said. “Overall, I think that the university needs to be a place where we are free to ask difficult questions and grapple with uncomfortable answers.”
Rebecca Epstein-Levy, assistant professor of Jewish studies and gender & sexuality studies, spoke about how she believes the compact has anti-trans provisions which would limit her ability to teach and research certain topics about Judaism and sex, sexuality, gender and disability.
“I’m a Jewish ethicist, and I research and teach courses at the intersection of Jewish text, Jewish thought, and sex, sexuality, gender and disability,” Epstein-Levy said. “The compact’s claim that there are only two genders — a claim which is bigoted, venal and spectacularly wrong — would make it impossible for me to teach these subjects accurately and responsibly.”
Jonathan Gilligan, earth and environmental studies and civil and environmental engineering professor, spoke about how he believes the compact could limit research and what is taught in science classes because topics may offend conservative policies.
Gilligan shared in an interview with The Hustler that he and many of his colleagues are worried about government overreach. They believe that if the government enforces politicized versions of science upon universities, they will not stop with the biology of sex and gender.
Editor’s Note: I am proud of hopeful of American higher education. Stand up for your rights, and protect us all with your views and passion for Democracy. –DrWeb
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Vanderbilt Student Government and the Vanderbilt chapter of American Association of University Professors host campus Teach-In in response to Trump administration’s higher education compact – The Vanderbilt Hustler
#2025 #AAUP #AcademicFreedom #America #DEI #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #StudentGovernment #TeachIn #TheVanderbiltHustler #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpSCompact #UnitedStates #VanderbiltUniversity
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👩🎓 🤷 What can we do when academic freedom is hijacked by ideology?
@AvSchroeder from our team has given this a lot of thought and presents CAREFUL.
Read more on the 👩💻 𝒲𝒾𝒩𝑜𝒟𝒶 ℒ𝒶𝒷 𝒥𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓁 🗞️:
https://winoda.de/en/2025/10/10/the-magic-of-acronyms-part-3-careful/What are your thoughts? Do we already have all we need with FAIR, CARE, the Nagoya Protocoll and Barcelona Declaration? Are we saturated or is there still a need for more?
#FAIR #CAREPRINCIPLES #Nagoya #barcelonadeclaration #CAREFUL #blog #article #WiNoDa #fairdata #academicfreedom
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From the @TexasTribune, top faculty members and student leaders issued letters of support for Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III as several Republican lawmakers have called for his firing.
#Education #EducationNews #LGBTQ #Local #News #Politics #Texas #AcademicFreedom #GenderIdentity #MarkWelsh #TexasAM #TexasGOP #TexasUniversities
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…In April of this year, the #FederalGovernment abruptly froze at least $790 million in federal #research #funding that had been planned for #Northwestern, a Big Ten #school near #Chicago.
The attacks on #Northwestern have been part of a broader campaign by #Republicans to take American #universities…. Schill’s resignation is the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the nation’s elite #schools….
#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #education #Trump #BrainDrain #fascism #tyranny
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The president of #NorthwesternUniversity, Michael H. Schill, announced Thursday that he would resign, after a difficult tenure that included attacks from #Republicans in #Congress & cuts by the #Trump admin that forced the #university to lay off hundreds.
#Northwestern became a target this year of Trump ofcls, who cut nearly $800 million of the university’s federal #research #funding, after months of intense scrutiny from Republicans.
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Enough!!!
#Northwestern President Will Resign After #University Faced #Republican Pressure
The president, Michael Schill, will step down after months of turbulence, including #Trump administration cuts of $790 million to the university’s #research #funding.
#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #education #Trump #BrainDrain #fascism #tyranny #autocracy #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/northwestern-president-resigns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
At the same time, a proposal making its way through #Congress that would increase #taxes on #university #endowments could cost #Harvard an estimated $850 million a year.
The wider #academic community was shocked at Thursday’s move by the #Trump Admin. In a statement, Sally Kornbluth, president of the #MIT, called it a “grave moment.”
#InternationalStudents #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #BrainDrain #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
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The #Trump admin is also attempting to #deport some foreign protesters & has revoked hundreds of #visas across the country.
The Trump admin has frozen or canceled some #funding for #universities like #Columbia, #Princeton, #Brown, University of #Pennsylvania, #Cornell & #Northwestern as well.
#law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #education #research #innovation #Harvard #BrainDrain
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An "Isolation Chamber" could be defined as an Echo Chamber of One, where external forces impose limitations on exposure to new ideas, perspectives, and meaningful dialogue.
#Physics #EchoChamber #IsolationChamber #ScientificInquiry #ThinkForYourself #AcademicFreedom #IntellectualPrison #ChallengeTheNorm #CriticalThinking #OpenScience #BeyondTheEquations #IndependentResearch #BreakTheCycle #KnowledgeShouldBeFree #ScienceDebate #TheoreticalPhysics #OutOfTheBoxThinking #ScientificRevolution
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EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Suspends Journalism Professor Steven Thrasher After Gaza Solidarity Protest http://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/5/steven_thrasher #Gaza #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #education #USColleges #USA #censorship #AcademicFreedom #NorthwesternUniversity
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"A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions."
by a former student: https://www.972mag.com/nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian-israeli-academia/ @israel @academicchatter
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